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Patented Nov. 15, 1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT VATT, OF AKRON, OHIO.

PUZZLE. l

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 486,308, dated November 15, 1892.

Application tiled J' une 2, 1892x Serial No. 435,288. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT WATT, ot Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Game and Puzzle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in games and puzzles, and has for its object to construct a game-board and movable objects located upon the board, so constructed that when the objects located upon the board are not being moved they will be held Xedly in position thereon, and whereby after certain moves have been made one of the movable objects, which may be termed blocks or mem may be placed upon or made to crown another, and when so placed the two men or blocks will be held in a manner to prevent one from slipping from the other, the lowermost block or man being heldin like manner in engagement With the board.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a game which may be played solitaire and which will be amusing, interesting, and at the same time somewhatdifticult of execution.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specication, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in vall the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a gameboard and the blocks or men located thereon. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the board and men. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the board and through a row of the blocks or men; and Fig. 4 is a View representing two of the men or blocks in engagement, the upper block being in elevation and the lower in section.

The game-board A may be of any suitable or approved shape and may be made of any desired material. Ordinarily, however, the game-board is rectangular in general outline, and preferably, although not necessarily, itis provided with a marginal upwardly-extending flange 11. This board has produced upon its face a series of holes or apertures 12, and

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tending both transversely and longitudinally -1 of the board. In the general arrangement of the holes or apertures when twenty-four are employed the two central rows or lines are siX in number in both directions, the next outer rows are four in number in both directions, and the outermost rows are two in number. Th us, as shown in Figs. l and 2, the rows of apertures are graduated as to number from each side of thetwo central rows.

ln connection. with the game-board blocks or men B are employed, one block or man being provided for each hole or aperture 12, and it may be here remarked that the various holes or apertures are preferably numbered consecutively, the numbers commencing at the side of the board opposite that at which the player is to sit. The blocks or men may be of any desired shape in general outline. In the drawings they are shown as circular, and this is their preferred form, and each block or man is provided at its top at its center with a depression or recess 13, and attached to or integral with the central portion of its lower face a stud 14 is formed, the stud corresponding in cross-section to the cross-sectional shape of the recesses-13.

In playing the game the stud 14 of a block or man is placed in each of the apertures or holes l2, and in making the moves it is permissible and obligatory to take up any one block or man and carry it over any two blocks in a straight line forward' or backward, or from right to left, or from left to right, but never diagonally, and the block or man moved is made to crown the piece to which the move was made by inserting the stud 14 of the former into the recess 13 of the latter, as is shown in Fig. l. The-se moves are kept up until the player has succeeded by means of the moves above described in crowning one-half of the men or blocks, thus leaving upon the board one-half of the holes covered by two men or pieces, one rest-ing upon the other. In making the moves a crowned piece may be considered as two separate pieces-that is, a piece IOO may be moved over one crowned piece or over of apertures at each of the four extremities two separate pieces. A piece after being of the cross, and a series of men or pieces corcrowned must not be moved. responding in number with the Whole num- Having thus described my invention, I ber of apertures and provided with pins on 5 claim as new and desire to secure byLetteI-s one side and apertures or sockets on the other, I5

Patentsubstantially as set forth.

The board A, formed With vertically 'and ROBERT WATT. horizontally aligned rows of apertures, each Witnesses: row containing an even number and the Whole` JAMES F. HERB,

to being arranged in orueiforln order with a pair RALPH E. FERGUSON. 

